公开(公告)号：WO2022269486A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

申请号：PCT/IB2022/055745

申请日：2022-06-21

Applicant: COREPHOTONICS LTD.

Inventor： SHABTAY, Gal ,  GOULINSKI, Nadav ,  GOLDENBERG, Ephraim ,  SCHERER, Michael ,  SHEMESH, Ziv

IPC: G02B7/02 ,  G02B7/04 ,  G02B13/00 ,  G03B17/17

Abstract: Folded digital cameras, comprising a lens with N ≥ 3 lens elements Li and having an EFL, an aperture diameter DA, a f-number f/#, a TTL, and a BFL, wherein each lens element has a respective focal length fi and wherein a first lens element L1 faces an object side and a last lens element LN faces an image side; an image sensor having a sensor diagonal (SD); and an optical path folding element (OPFE) for providing a folded optical path between an object and the image sensor, wherein the lens is located at an object side of the OPFE, wherein the EFL is in the range of 8mm 0.75.

公开(公告)号：WO2022190049A2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-15

申请号：PCT/IB2022/052194

申请日：2022-03-11

Applicant: COREPHOTONICS LTD.

Inventor： YEDID, Itay ,  GOLDENBERG, Ephraim ,  KOWAL, Yiftah ,  GOLDSTEIN, Kobi ,  BOLTANSKI, Rami ,  MANOR, Itay ,  BOLTINSKY, Daniel ,  GRUSHKA, Oriel ,  BHUS, Vinay

IPC: G02B13/00 ,  H04N5/225 ,  G02B7/09 ,  G02B13/02 ,  G02B27/00

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a camera module for use in a portable electronic device. The camera module comprises a shiftable lens barrel comprising an objective assembly holding coaxially one or more lens elements defining an optical axis. The camera module has a retractable cover window. The lens barrel has an operative state and a collapsed state and the cover window has a corresponding extended and retracted position. The camera further comprises an actuator including a driving motor; a pop-out assembly actuatable by the actuator. The pop-out assembly includes a driving cam configured to be driven rotationally by the actuator, a carrier configured to receive the lens barrel and an image sensor configured to image a field of view of the objective assembly when the lens barrel is in the operative state.

公开(公告)号：WO2022023914A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-03

申请号：PCT/IB2021/056693

申请日：2021-07-26

Applicant: COREPHOTONICS LTD.

Inventor： KOWAL, Yiftah ,  GOULINSKI, Nadav ,  KORMAN, Tal ,  GOLDENBERG, Ephraim

IPC: G01D5/14 ,  G01R33/06 ,  G01B7/04

Abstract: Position sensing units, comprising a magnetic assembly (MA) having a width W measured along a first direction and a height H measured along a second direction and including at least three magnets having respective magnetic polarizations that define along the first direction at least a left MA domain, a middle MA domain and a right MA domain, wherein the magnetic polarizations of each MA domain are different, and a magnetic flux measuring device (MFMD) for measuring a magnetic flux B, wherein the MA moves relative to the MFMD along the first direction within a stroke L that fulfils 1mm ≤ L ≤ 100mm, stroke L beginning at a first point x0 and ending at a final point xmax, and wherein a minimum value Dmin of an orthogonal distance D, measured along the second direction between a particular MA domain and the MFMD, fulfills L/Dmin>10.

公开(公告)号：WO2022023855A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-03

申请号：PCT/IB2021/056358

申请日：2021-07-14

Applicant: COREPHOTONICS LTD.

Inventor： COHEN, Noy ,  RUDNICK, Roy ,  DROR, Michael ,  GOULINSKI, Nadav ,  GOLDENBERG, Ephraim

IPC: G02B13/18

Abstract: Folded digital cameras comprising a lens system with a lens and an image sensor, the lens having N ≥ 6 lens elements Li, an effective focal length (EFL) and a total track length (TTL), wherein each lens element has a respective focal length fi and wherein a first lens element L1 faces an object side, and an optical path folding element (OPFE) for providing a folded optical path between an object and the lens. In some embodiments, the lens system has a focusing range that covers object-lens distances from infinity to a minimal object distance (MIOD), wherein MIOD/EFL is smaller than 20 or even 7. In some embodiments, the ratio of a maximal chief ray angle to a field of view of the folded camera Max CRA / FOV is smaller than 0.25 or even 0.15 when the camera is focused at infinity.

公开(公告)号：WO2020008419A2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-09

申请号：PCT/IB2019/055734

申请日：2019-07-04

Applicant: COREPHOTONICS LTD.

Inventor： SHABTAY, Gal ,  BIRMAN, Eran ,  FRIDMAN, Roy ,  COHEN, Noy ,  GOLDENBERG, Ephraim ,  BACHAR, Gil

IPC: G06K9/46

Abstract: Systems including dual-aperture zoom digital cameras with scanning optical path folding elements (OPFEs) for automotive or surveillance applications and methods for operating and using same. In some embodiments, a dual-aperture zoom digital camera comprises a Wide camera with a Wide field of view FOV W , a Wide sensor and a Wide lens, wherein the Wide camera is operative to output Wide image information, a Tele camera with a Tele field of view FOV T smaller than FOV W and with a Tele sensor, a Tele lens with a Tele lens optical axis and a scanning OPFE, and a processing unit operative to detect an object of interest (OOI) from Wide and/or Tele image information and to direct the Tele camera to move FOV T to acquire Tele image information on the OOI.

公开(公告)号：WO2019220255A1

公开(公告)日：2019-11-21

申请号：PCT/IB2019/053662

申请日：2019-05-04

Applicant: COREPHOTONICS LTD.

Inventor： RUDNICK, Roy ,  DROR, Michael ,  GOLDENBERG, Ephraim ,  SHABTAY, Gal ,  BACHAR, Gil

IPC: G02B7/02 ,  G02B13/00

Abstract: Folded lens modules and assemblies characterized by low height and large entrance pupil (clear aperture), designed for folded cameras in consumer electronics and specifically in mobile phones. In some embodiments, a folded lens assembly comprises a plurality of lens elements that include, in order for an object side to an image side, a first lens element L 1 with a clear aperture CA(S 1 ) and a second lens element L 2 with a clear aperture CA(S 3 ), wherein CA(S 1 )/CA(S 3 ) > 1.2 and wherein the lens assembly has a ratio between an image sensor diagonal length SDL and a clear aperture of a last lens element surface CA(S 2N ), SDL/CA(S 2N ) > 1.5.

公开(公告)号：WO2018167581A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-20

申请号：PCT/IB2018/050885

申请日：2018-02-13

Applicant: COREPHOTONICS LTD.

Inventor： FRIDMAN, Roy ,  BACHAR, Gil ,  KATZ, Ruthy ,  ZINGER, Itamar ,  ILAN, Paz

IPC: G03B37/02 ,  G02B5/04 ,  G02B13/06

Abstract: Cameras with panoramic scanning range comprising a folded digital camera in which an optical path folding element (OPFE) that folds a first optical path from an object or scene into a second optical path substantially parallel with an optical axis of a lens of the folded camera, the OPFE being rotatable around the lens optical axis, and systems incorporating such cameras.

公开(公告)号：WO2018007951A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-11

申请号：PCT/IB2017/054037

申请日：2017-07-04

Applicant: COREPHOTONICS LTD.

Inventor： COHEN, Noy ,  GEVA, Nadav ,  LESHEM, Anat ,  GIGUSHINSKI, Oded ,  GOLDENBERG, Ephraim ,  SHABTAY, Gal

IPC: G06T5/50 ,  H04N5/225 ,  H04N5/262 ,  H04N5/265

CPC classification number: G06T5/50 ,  G06T2207/20221 ,  H04N5/2258 ,  H04N5/265

Abstract: Methods that provide a smooth transition in switching a dual-camera output from an output of a first sub-camera to an output of a second sub-camera comprise forming at least one composite image based on a weighted combination of a first sub-camera image and a second sub-camera image, switching the dual-camera output from an image based on the first sub-camera image to an image based on the at least one composite image, and further switching the dual-camera output from the image based on the at least one composite image to an image based on the second sub-camera image.

Abstract translation: 提供将双摄像头输出从第一子摄像头的输出切换到第二子摄像头的输出的平滑过渡的方法包括基于加权来形成至少一个合成图像 第一子摄像机图像和第二子摄像机图像的组合，基于第一子摄像机图像将双摄像机输出从基于至少一个合成图像的图像切换到图像，并且进一步将双摄像机图像 - 从基于至少一个合成图像的图像输出到基于第二个子照相机图像的图像。

公开(公告)号：WO2017208090A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-07

申请号：PCT/IB2017/052383

申请日：2017-04-25

Applicant: COREPHOTONICS LTD.

Inventor： BACHAR, Gil ,  JERBY, Itay ,  YEDID, Itay

IPC: H04N5/228

Abstract: Actuators for rotating or tilting an optical element, for example an optical path folding element, comprising a voice coil motor (VCM) and a curved ball-guided mechanism operative to create a rotation or tilt movement of the optical element around a rotation axis upon actuation by the VCM. In some embodiments, an actuator includes two, first and second VCMs, and two curved ball-guided mechanisms operative to create rotation or tilt around respective first and second rotation axes.

Abstract translation: 用于旋转或倾斜光学元件（例如光路折叠元件）的致动器包括音圈马达（VCM）和弯曲的球引导机构，其可操作以产生旋转或倾斜运动 光学元件在由VCM致动时围绕旋转轴线旋转。 在一些实施例中，致动器包括两个第一和第二VCM以及两个弯曲的球引导机构，其可操作以产生围绕相应的第一和第二旋转轴的旋转或倾斜。

公开(公告)号：WO2017115179A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-06

申请号：PCT/IB2016/057366

申请日：2016-12-05

Applicant: COREPHOTONICS LTD.

Inventor： SHABTAY, Gal ,  GOLDENBERG, Ephraim ,  KALI, Eran ,  COHEN, Noy ,  AVRAHAM, Gil ,  KATZ, Ruthy

IPC: H04N5/225 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N3/08 ,  G02B7/04 ,  G03B13/28 ,  G03B3/06 ,  G03B17/17

CPC classification number: G03B3/06 ,  G02B13/06 ,  G02B26/105 ,  G03B17/17 ,  G03B2217/002 ,  H04N3/08 ,  H04N5/2254 ,  H04N5/2258 ,  H04N5/2259 ,  H04N5/23232 ,  H04N5/23293 ,  H04N5/247

Abstract: Digital camera comprising an upright Wide camera configured to provide a Wide image with a Wide image resolution and a folded Tele camera configured to provide a Tele image with a Tele image resolution higher than the Wide image resolution, the Wide and Tele cameras having respective Wide and Tele fields of view FOV W and FOV T and respective Wide and Tele image sensors, the digital camera further comprising a rotating OPFE operative to provide a folded optical path between an object or scene and the Tele image sensor, wherein rotation of the OPFE moves FOV T relative to FOV W . In some embodiments, a rectangular FOV T is orthogonal to a rectangular FOV W . When included in a host device having a user interface that displays FOV T within FOV W , the user interface may be used to position FOV T relative to FOV W , scan FOV T across FOV W and acquire, store and display separate Wide and Tele images, composite Wide plus Tele images and stitched Tele images. The positioning of FOV T within FOV W , can be done automatically (autonomously) by continuously tracking an object of interest.

Abstract translation: 数码相机包括配置为提供具有宽图像分辨率的宽图像和配置为提供具有比宽图像分辨率更高的远图像分辨率的远图像的折叠远摄相机的直立宽相机， 宽和远摄像机具有各自的宽视场和远视场以及各自的宽和长图像传感器，所述数字摄像机还包括旋转OPFE，其可操作来提供 物体或场景与远摄图像传感器之间的折叠光路，其中OPFE的旋转相对于FOV 移动FOV 。 在一些实施例中，矩形FOV_T_与矩形FOV_W_正交。 当被包括在具有在FOV _{W 内显示FOV T 的用户界面的主机设备中时，用户界面可以用于定位FOV T 相对 到FOV ，通过FOV 扫描FOV ，获取，存储和显示单独的宽幅和远距图像，复合宽幅远摄图像和拼接 远程图像。 FOV T 在FOV W 中的定位可以通过连续跟踪感兴趣的对象自动完成（自动）。}